Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-15
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AND TIE PREsEAT.
Isl. Louis Globe Democrat. /

lSt. Loois Globe. Dem0orat.l
The two first breaks with savage life
we're kindlinQ Q 6re and making flint
tools. but up TO fifty years ago we had
no better cay Of making IRE than
knocking hinss toRetber IN finder or
toe. Goals we're the all-important item
Of bo1sehsld-Dct black camel, bat
live ash or oak ooals-snd il vas 3 dis
astar, indeed, when the iire was lost over
night
George WaahinRton never ate canned
peaches, and King George never rode IN
Wagner. There was not Happy
Thought range IN the world, nor rail
road. JOHN Jacob Aston bad not wealth
enough 70 bay gallon OF kerosene oil.
much less 70 light bis house With cleo
firstly. Il took six months to act word
from Q branch house In India OF Gan
ton, instead Of six minutes.
The average Of human life has stead
ily increased, and Is nov something
over forty, Wills cholera, plague. small-
pox and typhoid fevers have been
huntsd down 30 their causes aud ell be
ultimately hunted oat of civilization.
Hpdrop6obia, the last Of our incurable
horrors. Is no longer in the list of mya-
tE1hCAs A1G A1y8AokA00H aAn|I8ol1aAU18
of Prsvidence" turn out TO be for the
most part the pests Of our Nth and neg
| liRence.
Progress Is happily marked in nothing
90 much a. the household. Formerly
and palaces; nov the simple houses OF
the people are full of art, luxury and
comfort. The poer mans spring bed
1 nwsA aw 1s.nk A. the "a a
couch of Louis XVI. His furniture,
thou9h cheap, Is artistic and elegant.
His walls are decorated with PAT or that
IN the last century would have cost a
/ fortane-it costs bin 80 cents roll. He
eats bananas from she tropics ct 10
cents a dozen, and oranges are almost as
plentiful on his table a. apples. Base.
burners and furnaces keep him warm,
Books, a. the price Of beefsteaks, bring
him in contact with the worlds best
thoughts. Ten square yards of news.
| printed IN clear type, come 10 his door
esch morning for q nickel. The Globe
| Democrat bdys up, al enormous cost, the
W.T. and visions Of The VsFld, and dis
tributes il 70 10000 household at q
cost within the reach of the Common
laboreF. A manuscript that cost 5000
Is reproduced. and a cory Of il sent to
any one, free of postage. for 10 cents.
One haadred years ago Franklin's
door key unlocked the secrets of the
clouds. Today cur houses and streets
are illumined by the force that then was
untamed, aud only known to be feared.
study the dining room Of an average
sort IN an average home. The table is
OF ash, or oak, or walnut, neatly carved
The linen IS the result Of a century of
art applied to industries. The food il
beef from Colorado; the fruits come
from Mexico, the Indies and the Pacific.
In winter be eats frssh vegetables and
| fruits. Steam drsgs Florida oranges 70
the Columbia river and Georgia melons
TO NJ ine.
Bot our politics are scandAlousl Are
fhey2 Go back to Jefferson's day and
read few pages in which Aaron Burr
and the not immaculate Hamilton
figure. The men in English, French
or Italian history of the sixteenth, seven
tenth and eighteenth centuries, who
in public life were not. at some perio
OF their career, in reasonable GORE
spSndence, we're the exception. English
kings accepted pay froIn France for
dealing criminaliy by their own realm.
Brides are indeed TOO common in a re
public, but Is there a hamlet in America
| where q candidate for 0tfice would dare
70 set table in the street and publicly
buy votesl Yet such vas the custom in
England IN the last century. In oliti-
cal morals We are not losing but gaining.
Nat only are the means used less cor
Fnpt; the candidates must stand q
eaus1ic moral test. Moral questions are
political questions, and they will never
be less %.
How Is Il soclally2 II you read few
the three preceding centuries You viii
sxult In the good times now. Kings
courts were less decent than the houses
of oourtessns IN cur cities, and the PEG
pie copied their rulers. TIE history Of
the church vas hardly cleaner.